JEFTA VAN DINTHER RETURNS WITH THE UK PREMIER OF DARK FIELD ANALYSIS

THE TOPIC OF BLOOD RUNNING AS A RED THREAD THROUGHOUT THE PERFORMANCE

A Sadler’s Wells 20th Anniversary Commission, containing nudity, running Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 September

Dark Field Analysis calls upon the intensity of being alive by placing humans in relation to other forms of life. A conversation unfolds between two naked men on a carpet; the topic of blood running as a red thread throughout the performance. Dark Field Analysis draws its name from a branch of alternative medicine that uses dark field microscopy to diagnose systemic bodily conditions originating in the blood. The conversation between the two men encompasses more than medical facts. Blood serves as an analogy for looking inwards and outwards: into and beyond the body.

Dark Field Analysis, which received its world premiere at the Tanz im August festival in Berlin in August last year, is choreographed and directed by van Dinther and performed by Juan Pablo Cámara and Roger Sala Reyner. Van Dinther’s work is characterized by striking sensorial illusions and a rigorous physical approach. The moving body is centrefold in his work but interacts with a body of light, sound and materials that constitute an environment of perception and sensation.

Jefta van Dinther is a choreographer and dancer who works in Stockholm and Berlin. His recent work As It Empties Out (2014) was co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and presented in partnership with Platform Theatre at Central Saint Martins in 2015. His provocative work Plateau Effect (2013) for Cullberg Ballet, which received the Swedish Theatercritic’s Danceprize 2013 and was selected for the Swedish Biennial of Performing Arts 2015, was presented at Sadler’s Wells as part of the Northern Light season in 2014. Other recent credits include Protagonist (2016), and van Dinther has also choreographed and performed in the music video Monument (2015) by Robyn & Röyksopp, as well as curating the festival LIAISON in Stockholm.

In 2012, Van Dinther was awarded the Birgit Cullberg Grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. He graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2003 and as a dancer worked with choreographers including Mette Ingvartsen, Frederic Gies, Kristine Slettevold, Keren Levi, Ivana Muller, Leine&Roebana and Xavier le Roy. He was appointed Senior Lecturer and Artistic Director in Choreography at the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm in 2012.